back to school at staples

For the last ten months, I have been working at Staples the Office supply store. The hours are flexible with my school schedule and the location is close by to where I live. However, these past two weeks at staples have been "Back to School". Meaning that another big sale has come up again. Also that means our store hours have been changed to where we open later. During the Back to school sale, we have sales from pencils to lap-tops. We also have a teacher appriciation day, where we hand out free supplies to teachers which is probably the most craziest day of the year. Those supplies went quick. Anyway the Back-to-school sale at staples is pretty much insane. We have pencils starting at a penny to twenty cent binders. So you can imagine how the customers will be taking advantage of the sale and how much of a mess the store is after we close.

For instance, staples has a limit on how much a customer can purchase an item. Do not buy like thirty pencils and expect any of the cashier to split up the transactions especially when there is twenty more people in line. Thats another thing that bothers me about the back to school sale is when there is a long line of customers, they will still go in line and just stare the cashier down as if that were going to make the line go any faster. We get some pretty interesting customers all year round, however i think back to school is most entertaining. Everyone is at most chaos because they need to get all the items on the list their child's teacher gives them. Oh yeah! I notice at least five people are asking for rain checks when we are out of stock and its fun to tell them no we do not give out rain checks. We are not Albertons or Nob Hill foods. After the customers leave, it is time to clean after their mess. It is ridiculous how you will find pencils where the notebooks are or where the crayons where the laptops are. Did i mention we have a binder wall that plays that has the domino effect. When someone takes out a binder, all the binders somehow just fall down. I would have to say its the binders that always take up the most time to be put back.

The back to school sale at staples is certainly an experience. Fortunately there is only one more week left of this craziness.